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...park called Vedaland, scheduled to open in 1993. The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the saffron-robed Indian guru who brought transcendental meditation to the world (and to the Beatles), has teamed up with magician Doug Henning to produce a spiritual equivalent of gourmet TV dinners, a high-tech, fakery-filled playground, ostensibly to help put man in harmony with nature. The 38 attractions will include a building that appears to levitate above a pond, a chariot ride inside the "molecular structure" of a rose and a journey over a fabricated rainbow. Naturally, there are unbelievers. Says Orlando Sentinel columnist Robert Morris...
Harvard traditionally has held the view that "the arts were a sort of playground for the devil," according to Myra Mayman, director of the Office for the Arts. But with the coming of the American Repertory Theater (ART) in 1984, a debate ensued about whether to grant credit for performance. As a result, the "Bakanowsky Guidelines," named for Louis Bakanowsky, a professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, were established...
Their plight inspires both pity and fear. Pity that they are the innocent victims of society's ills. Pity that the odds will be stacked against them at , home, on the playground and in school. Fear that they will grow into an unmanageable multitude of disturbed and disruptive youth. Fear that they will be a lost generation...
...deal with broken playground equipment and potholes just as we do with crime," says David Couper, chief of police in Madison, Wis., which has committed its entire force of 310 officers to the community-policing concept. Officer Joe Balles, who patrols the city's low-income Broadway-Simpson neighborhood, hands out a business card with the phone number of the answering machine in his office. At the end of every day he has a tape full of pleas for assistance, messages from tipsters and calls from people who just wanted to chat with their...
...INVITED (Lancaster Productions/Emeryville, Calif.) Are your kids too old for Sesame Street, but too young for Madonna? Give them a dose of Vitamin L, a wholesome pop-rock group of three teens and three grownups led by songwriter Jan Nigro. Their new album covers such serious matters as playground putdowns and pollution, but still has enough rhythm and soul to appeal to today's hip youngsters...